Dorris Evangeline Shelton Still (25 August 1904 in

Kangding Kangding (), also called Tachienlu and Dartsedo (; ), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding is on the bank of the Dadu River and has been considered the histor ...

Kham Kham (; ) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas (), and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham ...

province of Tibet - 29 April 1997Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton
p. 352) was an American writer, who wrote the book ''Sue in Tibet'', a semi-biographical work about growing up in Tibet.

Biography

She was the eldest daughter of

Albert Shelton Albert Leroy Shelton (1875-1922) was an American medical doctor and a Protestantism, Protestant missionary in Tibet, especially in Batang, Sichuan, Batang in the Kham region of eastern Tibet, from 1903 until 1922. He authored a popular book about ...

(1875-1922), an American missionary, who was stationed in the remote border town of Batang between 1908 and 1921. Batang was part of the

region of eastern Tibet. In 1921, she and her sister were sent off to boarding school in the United States. Her father was shortly afterwards killed by bandits in a raid. Like her father and mother, she wrote a book about life in Tibet. Her book titled ''Sue in Tibet'', was published later in the 1930s or 40s. It was a rare book in its time, in that the main character and heroine of the adventures was a girl. Shelton Still would later engage herself in Tibetan causes and also met the

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

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1904 births 1997 deaths American expatriates in Tibet 20th-century American novelists American women novelists 20th-century American women writers {{Tibet-stub